Tabula Rasa Promotion To Send Gamers' DNA to Space 90
Bridger tips news that NCSoft's Tabula Rasa, created in part by Richard Garriott, is running an unusual promotion right now. Garriott is going to the International Space Station on October 12th, and he'll take with him a digital record of the DNA of various players and celebrities. The basic plot of Tabula Rasa is that Earth was attacked and humans almost completely wiped out. Garriott's promotion is playing on that idea; the hard drive with the DNA data will be left in orbit "just in case" something happens to humanity on Earth. NCSoft has been running a variety of polls and contests to include further data about humans on the hard drive. The deadline for joining the project has recently been extended to September 29th.
Re:They shouldnt be sending DNA (Score:2, Insightful)
Are you nuts? Then if something happens the game survives!
I say we keep it here just in case. No wait...
Fragile data (Score:4, Insightful)
DNA molecules are fragile, and hard drives even more so.
The DNA data will be shredded by cosmic rays, and even if it wasn't, how exactly would that save the human race in case of an extinction level event.